One TV station left in Iraq
26/03/2003 11:47  - (SA)  

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Baghdad - Only one of Iraq's three television channels was still running on Wednesday after overnight coalition strikes severed satellite transmissions.

The state television channel was blacked out for 45 minutes after the strikes but was back on Wednesday airing news bulletins and old footage of patriotic clips and military parades as usual.

The satellite television and the Youth television of President Saddam Hussein's elder son Uday were still cut following the bombings that targetted the television building and transmitters.

The compound which was hit included the state television, Youth television, Kurdish radio and television channels as well as radio studios.

The television building is close to the information ministry, which tightly controls all media in Iraq and oversees a formidable propaganda machine.

The raids came a day after the state broadcaster carried grisly footage of US prisoners of war and dead as well as assurances from the regime that Saddam remained in control.

- AFX

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